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Yeomanry

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Noun

1. yeomanry

class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land

2. yeomanry

a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yeomanry

see synonyms of yeomanry
noun
1. 
yeomen collectively
2. 
(in Britain) a volunteer cavalry force, organized in 1761 for home defence: merged into the Territorial Army in 1907

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Yeomanry

see synonyms of yeomanry
noun
1. 
yeomen collectively
2. 
a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 as a home guard, but since 1907, a part of the Territorial Army

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yeomanry

see synonyms of yeomanry
n. pl. yeo·man·ries
1. The class of yeomen; farmers of small freeholds.
2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 to serve as a home guard and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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